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Do people just hangout in Discord servers all day? They all just seem to _mostly_ require a TON of time investment and (of course) I've never been able to figure out how to setup 'notifications' beyond the obviously-a-bad-idea 'send me ALL of the notifications to my desktop' option.

I'm probably weird, but I like having a smaller number of messages (I think) I want, and a queue for reading/marking-un-read individual messages, or some kind of 'message digest' option, for async communications methods.

Once something like a Discord channel becomes big/frequented enough that there 3+ conversation threads interleaved, it just seems too overwhelming to do more than occasionally 'dip my toes into the stream' for a few minutes if I'm really bored. Maybe you'll start linking to stuff in the Discord and that can serve as my regular reminder to go look at it for a bit?

(I accepted your invite anyways!)

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I use notifications set to only mentions (with or without @everyone depending on server) in general, and that mostly seems fine. Some servers abuse @everyone and some don't.

I don't plan to keep discord open all the time, rather I intend to check in periodically, and sometimes that will result in a conversation, either in a room or via PM.

And again, it's a low-cost experiment.

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Sorry – didn't meant to imply this didn't make sense for you to _try_!

I couldn't get notifications to work the last time I tried (on another server) and I think just assumed it wasn't worth figuring out.

Trying to participate-on/make-use-of your server is pretty low-cost for me too :)

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You right click on the topic -- the menu is right (pun intended) there.

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I'm pretty sure I found that before, but I'm also pretty sure I never received any emails either.

I'll check again, maybe, when I'm back on a Discord server.

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I'd advise against having a bunch of $TOPIC discussion channels, at least to start with. Keeping everything in General leads to more cross-pollination and less siloing of the userbase. A couple of different conversations can happen in a channel at once before it becomes hard to follow.

If conversation about some topic is repeatedly swamping other things then break it out into its own channel.

Zvi-asks-questions makes sense as its own channel to make life easier for you as does anything more limited in scope e.g. topic suggestions, hiring you or posting predictions.

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